Seems convenient at first glance, but you still have to put the little key tapper next to the keyboard. Surely there’s an easier way.

(And I’ll close this whole novella by reiterating that I don’t really know anything, and all of this could be complete nonsense. You just happened to catch me at the right [wrong?] time to blather on about a topic that interests me.)

“Record Layoffs!” and “Musk May Be First Trillionaire”?

In other words, I don’t think efficiency is the problem per se, I think it’s greed, and economic policy (or lack thereof).

Nor, to close the loop, do I think that the problem with AI isn’t (necessarily) the added efficiency.

and buy a several new yachts (8 extra temporary jobs for Croatian yacht builders). Not quite as nice.

So I guess the way to figure out if we’re living in a Utopia Pictures country or a Republic Pictures country is to ask… is everyone getting richer, or are we simultaneously reading headlines like

than the usual hundred. It leads to such massive profits for the studio that they make 12 more movies, requiring 120 VFX artists who are now so in demand their wages go up. Nice!

But across town, Republic pictures also made a windfall by firing 90% of their VFX team. The executives pocket the money

So once you start fiddling with the efficiency knobs, it must become a question of where the benefits of the efficiency propagate to.

Like, thought experiment: imagine a movie studio, Utopia Pictures. New technology allows Utopia to do the VFX on their latest blockbuster using a team of 10 rather

As long as we’ve established that I’m sounding off on something I know nothing about, here’s my thinking: there must be an efficiency sweet spot. Like, obviously zero efficiency is bad. And TOO much efficiency — one person doing the work of a thousand — is probably deleterious.

Uh, yeah, I’m no expert either, but I’m very sure you’re right about that.

Yeah. It’s super obnoxious. Like, Here’s an app update — now with AI that you have to scroll past/click out of/try to ignore.

Not sure how old you are but I remember a similar mania in the mid 90’s with the rise of the Web.

In time things settled into something saner. Don’t know if this will too.

But you’re also asking in general whether increased worker efficiency is good for the economy. I think this is a subject of much debate, long before AI entered the picture.

Oh, yeah, if you’re asking a bigger question like, how are things are going to shake out economically with the rise of AI, yeah, I’d tend to agree that it’s likely to be a net negative.

But we’re guessing. It’s a weird new world out there. I don’t trust anyone’s predictions. :)

Depends on your line of work. Is this a serious question? Because I’m a writer too, and consider gen AI to be a huge societal danger, but my day job is in technology so I am aware of genuine time-saving applications (alas).

But I won’t give examples lest I sound like an evangelist. :)

Yep, this was me too today.

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Yep, similar experience, slightly different color order. Adding documentary proof that purple was easiest today.

I believe in you.

I’ll be over in 10 minutes.